Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1900 — WEST UNDER SNOW COVER. [ARTICLE]

WEST UNDER SNOW COVER.

Storm Is Widespread and Delays Business and Traffic. The heavy snowstorm which has enveloped the entire West and Northwest, covering almost every State in these parts of the Union, is almost unprecedented in damage to all manner of traffic as well as interrupting seriously the ordinary vocations of life. Press dispatches show’ the storm to have been general from Omaha to Toledo and from Milwaukee to the Gulf of Mexico. In Illinois, northern Indiana and eastern Missouri snow fell to a depth of eight to fifteen inches. The high winds and snow has also interfered with traffic from northern Ohio over western Pennsylvania to the lower lake region to the interior of New York. Moline, 111., reports a freight wreck oh the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad at Port Byron. At Mattoon snow and sleet played havoc with wires. Jacksonville fears a coal famine. Waukegan, Bloomington and many other cities report' the schools closed on account of the snow. All of Indiana felt the force of the storm. Trains were much delayed throughout the northern and central portions, and in the southern part sleet caused much damage to wires. In Michigan, Lansing, Three Rivers, Saginaw; Benton Harbor, Kalamazoo- and Niles report from ten to eighteen inches of snow on the level. Kenosha, Wis., was storm bound, and at Burlington, lowa, street car traffic was blocked. Toledo, Ohio, reported a severe storm, with all the attendants of wind, delayed railroad trains and blockaded traffic. In the southwest Dennison, Texas, reports the storm the worst in years. Six inches of snow fell in Indian Territory. Rain, hail and snow prevailed throughout Texas.